Note 6 — Chapter VI · THE VISIONARY EVANGEL

That the story of the tragedy is a separate composition has been partly perceived by critics of different schools without drawing any elucidating inference. Wellhausen pronounces that the Passion cannot be excepted from the verdict that Mark as a whole lacks the character of history. “Nothing is motived and explained by preliminaries.”6 But “we learn as much about the week in Jerusalem as about the year in Galilee.”7 And the Rev. Mr. Wright gets further, though following a wrong track:—